Proceeds

Examples

• They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But in the vernacular, the mind proceeds directly from the symbol to the thing signified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Doing proceeds from needs and aims at change. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Because, proceeds my Lady, I have been thinking of the subject, which is tiresome to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The reference,' proceeds Mortimer, 'which I suppose to be made by my honourable and fair enslaver opposite, is to the following circumstance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Well, he proceeds, throwing off his disappointment, next and last, those plans of mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The fact is, Mr. Smallweed, proceeds George, that I find myself in rather an unpleasant state of mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Ay, all proceeds and changes: what wonder then, that love has journied on to its setting, and that the lord of my life has changed? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Hence it proceeds, that we associate, in a manner, the idea of whatever is good with that of height, and evil with lowness. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Socrates proceeds: But where amid all this is justice? Plato. The Republic.
• Now, my friends, proceeds Mr. Chadband, since I am upon this theme-- Guster presents herself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His bath concluded, he proceeds to dress, and maybe puts in his false teeth, or straps on an artificial leg. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The inquiry proceeds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Wot I was a-thinkin on, Mr. Sangsby, proceeds Jo, wos, as you wos able to write wery large, p'raps? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn proceeds, Well, George--I believe your name is George? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Editor: Whitney